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Mike_L on 13 June 2016
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Teeqoz said:
Qwark said:

It still outsells every prequel and it is doing a great job in Europe. Which should be Sony's first focus in the first place. Besides which game which sells close if not over 3 million physical does a bad job on a single platform. Knowing Uncharted this game will keep on selling for a long time.

 

Ratchet and Clank might be a bit dissapointing since it still has not cracked that million even at 40 euro.

Perhaps R&C dissapointed Sony (even though the series has always been extremely leggy, and not frontloaded). My point isn't that UC4 sold badly. Just that it maybe didn't sell as well as Sony might've expected. This is the third time I'm repeating this...

I don't think people keep questioning you (and Mazzy) to be jerks towards you or because they cannot handle if Uncharted 4 didn't sell as well as Sony expected (personally, I was a bit disappointed with the game and look forward to The Last of Us 2).

I really just think they're a bit confused as to what these alleged expectations are and where they come from.

 

You may be right that Uncharted 4 didn't meet Sony's expectations but what are that based on? Do you see why some may feel that it on the contrary possibly met Sony's expectations? Being Sony's fastest selling 1st party game ever with 2.7 mill sales (including digital) first week. Launching at number 1 all over the world (even Japan). Selling 200,000 copies more (US alone) than its predecessor in its first month. Selling twice as many copies (US alone) as Doom (on all platforms) in its first month. Selling equal to Halo 5: Guardians (US alone) in its first month (no matter what that's a pretty big turn of events for Uncharted in Xbox's home turf).

And regarding the 200,000 above Uncharted 3, we have to consider that digital is much bigger now (~30%) than it was when Uncharted 3 launched. If we include digital Uncharted 4 did indeed break a million (US alone) in its first month. Some speculate that it did at least 1.15 mill including digital. That'd be 450,000 more than Uncharted 3's first month of 700,000 in the US. A growth of 64.29%. For me only Square Enix would be disappointed with that kind of growth.

 

As said, Uncharted 4 may have fallen short of Sony's expectations but me (and others) have a hard time finding the numbers that indicate this. Please don't see this as a butt hurt witch hunt being done to shut down every negative word on Uncharted 4 sales. This is rather the opposite. I'd be really interesting to discuss why you think its sales fell short of expectations. I asked Mazzy the same question but he fled the conversation.

 

Genuine question. What numers do you think Sony expected? 1 mill in the US first month (it did that with digital)? 1.5 mill in the US first month?